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samisamaan01-FieldMind/fieldmind

Domain:

agriculture

Record type:

softwareproject
Creator:
sam
Host:
Offline AI crop assistant for smallholder tomato farmers in Kenya. Built with Google Gemma 4 for the Gemma 4 Good Hackathon. # 🌱 FieldMind β€” Your Offline Field Assistant Offline AI crop assistance for smallholder farmers. Built with Google Gemma 4 , powered locally with Ollama , and designed for real-world low-resource environments. --- ## πŸ“Œ Overview FieldMind is an offline AI assistant that helps smallholder tomato farmers identify crop issues using nothing more than a photo. Built for the **Google Gemma 4 Good Hackathon**, the project focuses on **food security**, **global resilience**, and **accessible AI for underserved communities**. Using a locally running multimodal Gemma 4 model, FieldMind analyzes crop images directly on-device and returns a simple, structured, and actionable report β€” even without internet access. No cloud. No subscriptions. No external servers. No data leaving the device. --- # πŸ† Hackathon Submission | Category | Details | |---|---| | **Hackathon** | Google Gemma 4 Good | | **Organizers** | Kaggle Γ— Google DeepMind | | **Track** | Global Resilience / Food Security | | **Model** | Gemma 4 E2B | | **Inference** | Fully Local via Ollama | | **Target Devices** | Low-resource laptops & smartphones | ### 🎯 Targeted Prizes - πŸ₯‡ **Ollama Prize β€” $10,000** Best local Gemma deployment using Ollama - πŸ₯‡ **llama.cpp Prize β€” $10,000** Best implementation on constrained hardware - 🌍 **Global Resilience Track** AI systems designed for difficult real-world environments --- # 🌍 The Problem More than **500 million smallholder farmers** worldwide lose major portions of their crops every year because diseases are detected too late. In rural regions such as **Kirinyaga, Kenya**: - Agricultural experts may be over **40 km away** - Internet access is unreliable or nonexistent - Farmers often rely on guesswork - A single bad season can threaten an entire family's income Mwangi, a tomato farmer, notices strange yellow spots on his leaves. He does not know whether the issue is: - a fungal infection, - a pest outbreak, - or a nutrient deficiency. Waiting too long c …